Sweet Dreaming

You can call me odd. I am one of those rare breeds who takes their dreams very seriously. I dream every night … usually multiple dreams in a night. And I ALWAYS remember my dreams. I wake up and stay in my dream. My roommates used to laugh at me because if someone woke me up I would tell them to give me 10 minutes to “finish my dream.” And I would literally go back to sleep and finish my dream. While I can sometimes control my dreams, I am usually surprised and thrown off course by the content of them.

In the past week alone I have dreamed the following topics:

Falling into a lake infested with Crocodiles after flying around in large circles on a loose vine and dropping at the end of the trajectory

Watching someone else´s baby and forgetting to take care of it (oops!)

A boxer´s life story revealing his secret life as a dancer

A department store that´s really a hospital … with a hidden chamber in the basement with two brothers fighting over stolen, one-of-a-kind classic red sports cars

Fractal Art by Vicky Brago-Mitchell

I sometimes think that if I could just learn to write better, I could write some amazing stories based on the material of my dreams. Or perhaps they would just sound like crazy, doped-out, incongruous randomness … hard to tell. Some of the dreams are quite scary. More than once I have woken up scared of the creepy creativity possible in my very own mind. And I wonder, do the horror movies come out of whacked-out dreams? Is David Lynch just a dream-writer? Do we have to enter into this dreamy state to harness our true creative powers? Do artists take drugs to try to mimic the effects of natural dreams? And my most important question … how can I make money from this odd, sort of creepy talent of mine to dream and remember it all? Comments dear readers?

Max Ernst ... used nightmares for inspiration?

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One Response to “Sweet Dreaming”

Dear Mr. Vista,
1st) thank you for providing the image of ‘Mad Max’s infamous Firekeeper. Found your site looking for this very image; as it’s tangentially surreally associated with the pagan observance of Imbolc: a hearth holy day.

2) I have answers to all your questions, but alas it will only cost you your soul, sir–assuming it is still yours to sell?

3) Ah but let me phrase this another way, in-which you will see just how absurd the previous statement truely is!

4) “Exterminate All Rational Thought.”:
Sometimes to learn to do anything ‘better’–or perhaps more accurately? “Make it more your own”–we must 1st UNlearn what (we merely think) we know. This is the first and foremost secret of the surrealists themselves! Look up the classic game of “Japanese Whispers” for starters! This is the literary equivalent to “Exquisite Corpses”. Then look up “Frattage” & see William Burroughs for a more modern literary technique of what is essentially the art of creating type-written collage-like pages for which he coined the term “Cut-ups”.

You think your dreams are weird Cultur?
I’m here to tell you, “Baby you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” Have fun, blow your own accustomed “frames of reference” {as their called in anthropology class} without the aid of any synthesized substances more mind-altering than a pen/word-processor+printer & a pair of ‘schizors’–as we call them!

= “…they would just sound like crazy, doped-out, incongruous randomness…”:
GROUND ZERO of the unconscious is not only a brilliantly wondrous place to start–like standing at the North/South poles–all directions lead back toward civilization and warmer climbs!

& that “…the creepy creativity possible in my very own mind.” is NOT yours…rather not yours alone. Here’s a much more creatively productive–and actually quite sensibly more accurate & humanistic way to regard it: our minds are like wells, & the thoughts+/imaginings are like the water within…but where does the water come from?

For the answer to that? Check in with C.G.Jung. & re:this business of soul?
All souls are subset of “Anima Mundi”.

When &/if you’ve determined to accomplish all this (which may take a day/a lifetime/another incarnation…;) then let me know how your seeking, research, and experimentation have come to fruition for you, young visionary. Then maybe I’ll stop speaking like the saged Bodhisattva on the hilltop under the tree of wisdom here! [chuckle;] … well, maybe. & I’ll be glad to share with you some further enlightening resources.

Pleasant waking dream-scaping, sir.
You are not alone.
1,000nds & 10s of thousands have passed this way before us, and shall after again as well. They are our artists, poets, professors, priests, “Prophets, Seers & Sages” who are not only guardians, but the discoverers of the wisdom of all ages.
Amen, blessed be & “take back your stolen slack!” @ the church of the subgenius.

~ Sir James E. Caldwell

(Web-log under deconstruction!
I’ll be back when I master WordPress…
…I like the page layout here, & so happens you’re an excellent writer already by p’s + q’s. 😉